[4.0] Calc+Base fail without registry/writer.xcd from Writer package

Rene Engelhard rene at debian.org
Thu Mar 21 03:04:21 PDT 2013


Hi,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:53:42AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > It turns out that Calc and Base now need 
> > /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/registry/writer.xcd present on the system.
> 
> > Is this a wanted change or a bug?
> 
> Speaking of base, my guess is (but I'd be happy for a tester to
> confirm) that one cannot (and never could) create / use any form or
> report without Writer installed. So libreoffice-base should at least
> recommend libreoffice-writer.

Yeah, probably we should do that, will do in Debian.

> As to the "does not run at all", for both Base and Calc, ideally it
> would be nice to see *which* setting in writed.xcd they need, and
> maybe migrate this to a common/base file?

Yes. I would not like making -base and -calc making it *depending* on writer
hard.

Regards,

Rene


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